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Why we need formal cultural rights

as an expression of the fundamental role that culture plays in the existence and maintenance of human society and the right of every human to contribute to and engage with that role;
as a confirmation of culture's unique and essential function in helping us to understand and describe human behaviour, experience and aspirations;
as an underpinning of a cultural perspective applied to all public policy;
as the validation of cultural impact to at least an equivalent level of importance as environmental, social and economic impacts; and,
as the basis for accepting the exercise of creativity as a basic aspect of human life above and beyond its instrumental value in achieving secondary objectives (whether they be economic prosperity or social cohesion).